What Have I Done To Deserve This?

1984

Spain

1h 41min

18

Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar

Written by: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Carmen Maura, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma

From the camera that brought you Women On the Verge …, an earlier, more surreal vision of desperation, sex and bizarre familial interactions in middle-class Spain. The central role is again played by a distracted Maura, this time as a housewife coping with her depression and her ghastly family by taking a wee snort of cleaning fluid with her prescribed amphetamines. Another gem.